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Pre-K task force endorses Gov. Ivey’s first Pre-K expansion recommendation

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget proposal includes a $25 million expansion of Alabama’s state-funded, high-quality and voluntary First Class Pre-K program. If approved by the state legislature, the proposed funding increase would open an additional 240 classrooms next year and help bring the total number of First Class classrooms statewide close to … Continued

March 6, 2019

One year later, we still March for Our Lives

On the day we celebrate love, we also must commemorate a devastating anniversary, the first since the mass shooting last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. That Valentine’s Day afternoon, in six minutes of terror, a former MSD student killed 17 students and staff members and injured 17 more. Sadly, in … Continued

February 14, 2019

Is there a fox in the hen house?

By Thomas Scovill The rise of Kay Ivey to Governor and her appointment of Bryan Taylor as her legal counsel prompted me to recall my correspondence in 2012 with them on the subject of campaign finance. That year I reviewed the 2011 annual reports of every official elected statewide and every legislator. I was impressed … Continued

April 21, 2017

Carter Returns to Finance in Troubling Times

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Former Deputy State Finance Director, Clinton Carter, is returning to the government service to advise on revenue and financial policy. According to sources in Governor Robert Bentley’s inner circle, and those with close ties to Finance, Carter is being groomed to replace Acting Finances Director, Bill Newton. Reliable insiders … Continued

August 29, 2016

State Seeks Restitution From Disgraced Speaker Hubbard

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—In a Supplemental Brief in support of a sentencing recommendation filed Friday, the State is asking that disgraced former Speaker Mike Hubbard be ordered to pay, $1,125,000.00 in restitution for his criminal acts. SEE BRIEF HERE In July, Hubbard was convicted on 12 felony counts of public corruption, sentenced … Continued

August 8, 2016

State Files Motion on Admissibility of Evidence

By Susan Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—On Wednesday, the State filed a Motion for Pretrial Determination of Admissibility of Evidence in the Speaker Mike Hubbard case. In the motion, the State asks Judge Jacob Walker, III to issue an order before the trial, “determining that the State’s trial exhibits will be admissible evidence.” In a … Continued

April 14, 2016